I/O Redirection Under the Windows Operating System

PRO/5 supports I/O redirection from the command line. In Visual PRO/5, I/O redirection is all-or-nothing; FID (0) cannot be set to "IO" unless a redirection has been supplied for both input and output. If input is redirected, output must also be redirected, and vice versa. The -tIO options must be set in the command line.

The _bundle utility creates an ASCII file from a list of file names (both program and data). The resulting ASCII file will contain the exact sequence of characters necessary to recreate the files in PRO/5. The ASCII file can be used as redirected input to PRO/5 for recreation of the files.

The _savep utility is used to generate a string file to be redirected to PRO/5. The string file generated will contain all the necessary PRO/5 commands to SAVEP (protected save) all of the programs selected. This will allow you to work with all your programs without protecting them, and then prior to releasing them, protect them all easily.

Examples

vpro5 -tIO <program name> <in >out
vpro5 -tIO <program name> - <program args> <in >out